Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
In the midst of life, we are in death.
I learned. . . that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.
If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.
I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown. " "And you like it?" "I love it. " As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.